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O fato e a Coisa
Em novembro de 2022, contam-se 50 anos da morte de Torquato Neto. Para homenagear o grande tropicalista, o Círculo de poemas lança O fato e a coisa, único livro organizado em vida pelo poeta. Nele, podemos ver o multiartista em seu rico período formativo, escrevendo desde sua Teresina natal ou circulando por Salvador e Rio de Janeiro, lendo Drummond, entusiasmando-se por Luís Carlos Prestes e encontrando os amigos da futura jornada tropicalista: “viva caetano e bethânia / (...) viva que eu os conheço / e eu os amo de longe ou perto”. Como outras coletâneas de textos do autor, O fato e a coisa foi publicado postumamente. Esta edição traz na íntegra o livro, além de uma seleção de outros poemas de juventude, com um novo estabelecimento do texto, feito a partir de pesquisa no Acervo Torquato Neto, no Piauí, por Thiago E, que assina também o posfácio do livro. A orelha é de Reinaldo Moraes. “Tenho rins e eles me dizem que estou vivo”, escreve Torquato num de seus versos. Passado todo esse tempo, sua obra segue viva e se espalha cada vez mais entre nós, fazendo a cabeça e o coração de gerações.
- GenresPoetry
152 pages, Paperback
Published November 3, 2022
About the author
Torquato Neto
13 books8 followersTorquato Pereira de Araújo Neto (November 9, 1944 – November 10, 1972) was a Brazilian journalist, poet and songwriter. He is perhaps best known as a lyricist for the Tropicália counterculture movement, which later expanded its influence to Música popular brasileira. He worked with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo and Waly Salomão. He committed suicide at the age of 28.
Neto was the son of a public prosecutor and a primary schoolteacher from Teresina, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Piauí. At the age of 16, he moved to Salvador, Bahia, to attend secondary school at the Colégio Nossa Senhora da Vitória, where he was a classmate of Gilberto Gil. While there, he also worked as an assistant on Glauber Rocha's first feature film, Barravento.
Neto became actively involved in the cultural scene in Salvador, where he met Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. In 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro to study journalism at university but never graduated. He wrote columns on culture for several publications there. Torquato acted as a cultural agent and polemical defender of the artistic avant-garde, including Tropicalia, Cinema Marginal, and Concretism. He was friends with several major figures of these movements, including the musicians mentioned above, the poets Décio Pignatari and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, and artist Hélio Oiticica. At this time, Neto came to be seen as a figure in Tropicalism, having written the breviary "Tropicalismo para principiantes" ("Tropicalism for Beginners"), in which he argued for the necessity of creating a genuinely Brazilian "pop": "Accept completely all that the life of the tropics can give, without preconceptions of aesthetic order, without consideration of tackiness or bad taste, solely living the tropical and the new universe it contains, still unknown." Neto was also an important lyricist of iconic songs of the tropicalist movement.
At the end of the 1960s, after the exile of his friends Gil and Caetano under the military dictatorship, he traveled to Europe and the United States with his wife Ana Maria and lived in London for a brief period. On returning to Brazil in the early 1970s, Neto began to isolate himself, feeling alienated by both the military regime and the "ideological patrols" of the left. He went through a series of hospitalizations for alcoholism and broke several friendships. Neto committed suicide the day after his 28th birthday, in 1972.
Neto was the son of a public prosecutor and a primary schoolteacher from Teresina, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Piauí. At the age of 16, he moved to Salvador, Bahia, to attend secondary school at the Colégio Nossa Senhora da Vitória, where he was a classmate of Gilberto Gil. While there, he also worked as an assistant on Glauber Rocha's first feature film, Barravento.
Neto became actively involved in the cultural scene in Salvador, where he met Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. In 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro to study journalism at university but never graduated. He wrote columns on culture for several publications there. Torquato acted as a cultural agent and polemical defender of the artistic avant-garde, including Tropicalia, Cinema Marginal, and Concretism. He was friends with several major figures of these movements, including the musicians mentioned above, the poets Décio Pignatari and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, and artist Hélio Oiticica. At this time, Neto came to be seen as a figure in Tropicalism, having written the breviary "Tropicalismo para principiantes" ("Tropicalism for Beginners"), in which he argued for the necessity of creating a genuinely Brazilian "pop": "Accept completely all that the life of the tropics can give, without preconceptions of aesthetic order, without consideration of tackiness or bad taste, solely living the tropical and the new universe it contains, still unknown." Neto was also an important lyricist of iconic songs of the tropicalist movement.
At the end of the 1960s, after the exile of his friends Gil and Caetano under the military dictatorship, he traveled to Europe and the United States with his wife Ana Maria and lived in London for a brief period. On returning to Brazil in the early 1970s, Neto began to isolate himself, feeling alienated by both the military regime and the "ideological patrols" of the left. He went through a series of hospitalizations for alcoholism and broke several friendships. Neto committed suicide the day after his 28th birthday, in 1972.
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July 9, 2024
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Nas minhas mãos suporto a vida
a que desci. Chamaram-me Torquato, aceitei.
Fizeram-me criança, homem, coisa: nada fiz.
O meu pavor é como se não fosse
a solidão do próprio homem acrescentada nesta angústia que é só minha
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A minha juventude não foi. Foi álcool evaporado de repente que subiu aos infernos e ficou por lá
acocorada à frente do pai diabo - e eu nada sei
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Nas minhas mãos suporto a vida
a que desci. Chamaram-me Torquato, aceitei.
Fizeram-me criança, homem, coisa: nada fiz.
O meu pavor é como se não fosse
a solidão do próprio homem acrescentada nesta angústia que é só minha
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A minha juventude não foi. Foi álcool evaporado de repente que subiu aos infernos e ficou por lá
acocorada à frente do pai diabo - e eu nada sei
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June 10, 2023
Torquato Neto //
Do Piauí //
Pinta no verso //
Do céu daqui
Do Piauí //
Pinta no verso //
Do céu daqui
March 25, 2023
🦇 há o fato da morte e dessa coisa que não sabemos bem o que é e que me faz pensar que, aos 17, torquato só podia ter um pôster de augusto dos anjos no quarto, seu rockstar
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